Kim Edwards Quotes
'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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A house is kind of scary.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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I don't like exercising; I'll be honest with you.
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
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Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
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Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.
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My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
